Opening multiple iWeb sites in Mavericks?

This question has been answered in a couple of different places like here https://discussions.apple.com/message/24543747#24543747 and here https://discussions.apple.com/message/24365411#24365411, but I am still having difficulties.
I have been using iWeb Switch Domains.app for several years now, and it has worked well. I recently upgraded to Mavericks 10.9, and suddenly it has stopped working. Whenever I open it, or open iWeb itself, it always defaults to the most recent site that I have been editing. It no longer gives me an option of selecting the folder I would like to edit and I can't find a way to open other .sites2 folders. I have made all the modifications (unhide Library, allow apps from anywhere) recommended in this forum. My next step is to reboot from a clone of Lion to make the edits, but before I do that perhaps someone can help me determine if I am missing anything obvious. From these discussions, it seems that it should be possible to still use iWeb Switch Domains with Mavericks. Is there a way to manually modify the preference file without corrupting it?
Thanks all.
-Brad

iWeb Switch Domains is working fine for me. However, you can to the System/Security & Privace/General preference pane and click on the Open Anyway button or change the settings to "Anywhere" :
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If what you did is publishing to a folder and you're now trying to access those pages it's not gonna work...
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Post back and inform us of your success.
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do shell script"/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"
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I'm not very computer literate, but I did download the file:
file:///Users/monicaanderson/.Trash/iWeb%20Switch%20Domain.app/
file:///Users/monicaanderson/.Trash/iWebDrop%2013-50-25-235.app/
I copied these links from my download folder and neither would open.
Can anyone help me -- in simple terms
Thank you

iWeb has no import facility, so is unable to open any published website at all.
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If you can't find these files, then you are looking at re-building your site from scratch and there is no way in which you can alter your site because unfortunately the backup of your site that you need is your domain.sites files and not a published version - this is not good in iWeb because iWeb has no import facility so cannot open it.

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huh?

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303670
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for "Site1": ~username/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Sites/Site1/Domain.sites
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Hope I'm making sense.
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